Avatar (2009 Film)

[MikeyG]

I'm supposed to go see it this Tuesday.

haha me to.

[Lirange]

I just saw the movie. I loved the storyline, and personally I don't think the graphics we're all that they we're hyped up to be. I watched it in 3d and it would have been just as good in 2d. I wished they would have used more of the 3d in the movie. Also for you sc players, doesn't the humans reminds you a lot of the terran?xD They had marines banshees thors and firebreathers.

[Hraesvelg]

I just saw the movie. I loved the storyline, and personally I don't think the graphics we're all that they we're hyped up to be.

We must not have seen the same movie. It was a suburb technical feat. I bet their render farm could have kept a small state warm for the winter. The 3-D aspects were amazing, too. The glass effects were so real...I almost wanted to reach out at times. Too much 3-D could have been distracting, though. It's a tough line to walk. There were only a few "ZOMG, WE'RE USING 3D!!" moments, which is a good thing. Those tend to take you out of the movie. The usage really got me into the world in this case.

[Belaslav]

I recall Spielberg calling it "revolutionary", and after seeing the movie, yes it is revolutionary in terms of graphics and the whole concept of fantasy. But the storyline... Eh. Cheesy.

[Hraesvelg]

I don't know that I would call the story cheesy. It's certainly nothing groundbreaking, but really...what is? Humanity has been recycling certain mythic tropes since the dawn of storytelling.

[kaylaspot1996]

My friend told me to watch it!! She said it was good. But I'm not gonna keep my hopes up cos I might get disappointed. But I plan on watching it.. if I can find someone to watch it with me hahaha

Well Blaaaaaaah if you want me and Helion to fly in and go see it with you we will!
Lol...oh wait, we dont want to see it. Sorry AussieFriend!

[Ivramire]

I couldn't get past some parts though.

In the beginning when he first meets the female Navi, I was literally saying ''Please don't let her be a princess of her people and if she is, don't let the blue-people inexplicably decide to expose their royalty to the possibly dangerous stranger for the menial task of showing them 'their ways.'


I also couldn't get past how, right after the protagonist destroyed their ancestral home, exposed them to the humans, betrayed their collective society right after his induction, bedded the future matron who was as good as betrothed to another and indirectly caused her father's/their leader's death, everything was washed clean because he shows up on the big red bird and they adopt him as their lord and saviour, no questions asked.


What I really didn't like though was how they're saved in the end by the animals and the appeal to the planet. Seemed like a cheap way for the Navi to win an otherwise lost battle. A friend of mine compared it to someone crying out "THOR!" in the middle of a pile-up and bolts of lightning then rain down from Heaven, smiting all your enemies.


Disliked how there was no grey area between the Navi and the Humans and the Navi automatically hold the high-ground with no comparable sympatethic characters among the antagonists.


Good graphics though xD

[Hraesvelg]

I couldn't get past some parts though.

In the beginning when he first meets the female Navi, I was literally saying ''Please don't let her be a princess of her people and if she is, don't let the blue-people inexplicably decide to expose their royalty to the possibly dangerous stranger for the menial task of showing them 'their ways.'


I also couldn't get past how, right after the protagonist destroyed their ancestral home, exposed them to the humans, betrayed their collective society right after his induction, bedded the future matron who was as good as betrothed to another and indirectly caused her father's/their leader's death, everything was washed clean because he shows up on the big red bird and they adopt him as their lord and saviour, no questions asked.


What I really didn't like though was how they're saved in the end by the animals and the appeal to the planet. Seemed like a cheap way for the Navi to win an otherwise lost battle. A friend of mine compared it to someone crying out "THOR!" in the middle of a pile-up and bolts of lightning then rain down from Heaven, smiting all your enemies.


Disliked how there was no grey area between the Navi and the Humans and the Navi automatically hold the high-ground with no comparable sympatethic characters among the antagonists.


Good graphics though xD

Well, when your planet is a god, why not have a deus ex machina? It's the Gaia model explicitly depicted.

As far as the other things, what did you expect? This is just pulling from a variety of stories and myths told over the years. It had elements of Dances With Wolves, Ferngully, and Pocahontas...

Seriously, can you name a single absolutely original story?

[Lirange]

Eh, I just expected more I guess. Though, it could just be my horrible eye sight that wasn't able to see the details. I sat all the way at the back and I couldn't read the subtitles.

[cillia]

the graphics were so good me and the other 6 people i saw it with forgot we were even holding popcorn and we were so into the movie we would take a piece of popcorn and just keep it in front of our mouths because we were to into the movie xD